pursuing happiness

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy, they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

Marcel Proust

 

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

Dalai Lama

 

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw

 

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Ovid

 

People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.

Anton Chekhov

 

The habit of being happy enables one to be freed, or largely freed, from the domination of outward conditions.

Robert Louis Stevenson

 

To forget oneself is to be happy.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

Epicurus

 

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Epicurus